PLEA FOR COMPASSION: Crohn's Disease sufferer Dave Jewitt was told he couldn't use the toilet in Wilkinsons. (d06031205)

Published:12:30Monday 26 March 2012

SHOP staff refused to let a man with a bowel condition use store facilities when he urgently needed the toilet.

Dave Jewitt, who suffers from Crohn’s Disease, said he was clearly in distress when he asked to use a toilet at Wilkinsons in Dewsbury. But staff turned him away, saying the toilets were not open to the public.

Mr Jewitt said: “My main concern with this particular incident was that the way I was treated was awful. It was quite clear I was in distress and there was no sympathy at all.

“They said there was a public toilet in the market, but I just knew I wouldn’t make it.”